How to install etcd from https://github.com/coreos/etcd on Alpine Linux Latest?

In this tutorial, we will be installing etcd which is a distributed key-value store, which is widely used in cloud-native applications, on Alpine Linux Latest. The following steps are required for the installation process:

1. First of all, we need to open the terminal of Alpine Linux.

2. To install etcd, we need to first download the latest version of etcd from the GitHub repository. We can do this by using the following command:

wget https://github.com/coreos/etcd/releases/download/v3.4.15/etcd-v3.4.15-linux-amd64.tar.gz

3. Once the download process is completed, we can extract the downloaded tarball file by using the following command:

tar -xvf etcd-v3.4.15-linux-amd64.tar.gz

4. After the extraction process is completed, we need to move the extracted directory to the '/usr/local/bin/' directory by using the following command:

mv etcd-v3.4.15-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/

5. Now we need to set the PATH environment variable, so that the etcd command can be invoked from anywhere in the system. We can use the following command to set the PATH environment variable:

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin/etcd-v3.4.15-linux-amd64

6. We can check if the installation of etcd has been completed successfully by using the following command:

etcd --version

7. If the installation process has been completed successfully, then we will be able to see the version number of the etcd installed on the system.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed etcd from https://github.com/coreos/etcd on Alpine Linux Latest.

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